Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole c... by Henri Bergson | We Heart Quotes

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Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.

- Henri Bergson

Other quotes by Henri Bergson

Change

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

- Henri Bergson

Power Love

The motive power of democracy is love.

- Henri Bergson

Religion Science

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.

- Henri Bergson

The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.

- Henri Bergson

Men do not sufficiently realize that their future is in their own hands. Theirs is the task of determining first of all whether they want to go on living or not. Theirs is the responsibility, then, for deciding if they want merely to live, or intend to make just the extra effort required for fulfilling, even on this refractory planet, the essential function of the universe, which is a machine for the making of gods.

- Henri Bergson

Intelligence

Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.

- Henri Bergson

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